The conditional colour–magnitude distribution – III. A study of galaxy colour- and luminosity-dependent counts-in-cells statistics

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract The Conditional Colour-Magnitude Distribution (CCMD) model connects the galaxy colour-luminosity distribution with dark matter halo mass, which has been constrained in Xu et al. by jointly modelling the two-point correlation functions (2PCFs) of a large galaxy sample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) in fine bins of galaxy colour and luminosity. We test the CCMD model of the galaxy–halo connection using counts-in-cells (CIC) statistics by comparing CCMD model predictions with SDSS measurements for 16 subsamples of galaxies in various luminosity and colour bins. In addition, we compare SDSS measurements with three analytic models of CIC distribution. The CCMD model provides a good description of the SDSS CIC measurements for most subsamples. The exceptions are the void probability functions and CIC distributions with cell radius 5 h−1Mpc for a few subsamples in the luminous bins, which are not well described by the analytic models, either. For these subsamples, in general, removing the Sloan Great Wall from SDSS or introducing velocity bias to the CCMD model does not resolve the disagreement. Finally, with the help of the CCMD mocks, we investigate the cause of the variations of the galaxy counts in cells. For small cells or cells with a low mean galaxy count, the variation reflects effects from the fluctuation in both the matter environment and the halo occupation distribution, while for large cells or cells with a high mean galaxy count, the environment effect dominates. We discuss the implications of our work for investigating galaxy assembly bias.
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Authors Raymon Isaac, Zheng Zheng
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Journal monthly notices of the royal astronomical society
Year 2026
DOI
10.1093/mnras/stag1793
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https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag1793
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